I was raised where this video was filmed. The large rock in the background is a crossroad called "Deadmens Point". Alot of old western film would use that to scene a stagecoach robbery.
The good Captain has this effect on most Beefheart converts. Wait til you hear Big Eyed Beans From Venus, I'm Gonna Booglarise You, Bat Chain Puller & err most everything else. Wrote some good ballads as well. He has no equal.
This is one of the greatest songs I have ever heard and then this video. Oh my god! It's enough to make you want to split open your own head! I can never get enough of it. I used to sing it constantly, especially the part where he says "white hattttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt on a pumpmkin...you know there's something!" I work at an ice-cream shop now and I sing it religiously. Not that anyone cares.
I quote the song all the time. Nobody ever gets it but they do get puzzled. I also like to quote from The Past Sure Is Tense. The whole album is great. One of his best. Maybe the best.
I'm a blues freak and this song and the whole album is best of the best. This is how it should be done. Humour, danger, off-playing while playing just right, absurdism with wit. That's the real blues for me.
Love it! The Captain whips thru the English language like a toddler racing around the house...picking up whatever he can find, shaking it, putting it in his mouth, playing with it, then moving on to the next thing that strikes his fancy.
Around about 1983, The Old Grey Whisle Test showed this video. I'd never really been aware of Captain Beefheart before that, but it was quirky so I bought the album and quite enjoyed it. I also had a poster from Sounds listing the top 100 greatest albums. The top 5 were all punk albums I think, but about half way down was something called Trout Mask Replica by the same guy, so I bought that too, and he became my favourite musician of all time. Thank you Don, RIP.
..genuine savant pioneer who elevated blues music,expressionist painting, reclusiveness, spontaneity, fearless individuality, and dry high desert humor to elegant art forms, to this day still untouchable....ask ry cooder or tom waits , while we still can, since zappa,s gone, and things keep moving so fast....lots to admire about beefheart
the video leaves a bit to be desired but seeing as how it was made in 1982 , at the very start of the art form , im sure it was highly influential in many music vids made thereafter .
All my friends think I’m weird because I like Captain Beefheart’s music, they say that this is just some crazy dude rambling nonsense and somebody who’s never even seen a music sheet in his life... I replied to them: ”well in that case this is some of the best nonsense I’ve ever heard”, and put the song on repeat. A truly unique innovator that can’t never be replaced, he inspired me to start playing harmonica a few years ago
I had the pleasure of meeting Don in NYC and again in LA.He came to a FZ rehearsal.I stood between them eavesdropping.40 years later I still do not believe it.But it happened
The difference was that Beavis and Butt-Head exhibited the kind of stupidity that infuriated Don. Back in 1972 he was interviewed by a Rolling Stone reporter and angrily denounced drug use. "Trying to save the planet is what's happening. I know people who drive metal stakes into redwood trees and when the loggers come to cut down the trees they break their goddam saws."
You need to be 'out of the box ' to be anle to appreciate the genius of Beefheart! I consider myself one of the fortunate ones in this respect. He was indeed 'magic'.
Mr. Beefheart is an acquired taste, the first few listens I didn't know what to think either, but it grows on ya. Its like stepping the shower, a shock to the system at first but once you get accumstomed it becomes very enjoyable.
@@destrozar brilliant taste........lots of good bands like Gong were passed over........l knew Zep'', but loved Arthur Brown as well .........niçe cover..........not as good as Hot Rats, Mother's..............
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 - As a painter myself for over 65 years I know that's not what most of the art world thinks, and while "Primitivism" (rough and childlike) is still influential and important, he did not fit completely into any category because the music and paintings are personal, and specific to his artistic sensibilities. "But despite the perceived primacy of his paintings, Van Vliet was a locally famous artistic prodigy long before he was a musical icon. He began painting and sculpting at age three and gained local notoriety for his renderings of various animals. By age nine, Van Vliet won a children’s sculpting competition that would result in an apprenticeship with local tutor Agostinho Rodrigues who regarded the young Beefheart as truly gifted."
My grandad once told me that this man was magic. As a innocent kid i ask if he was really magic, like spells and stuff. Now as a adult i truly understand what he meant.
Thank you for saying that. It's kinda irritating when I see people proclaim "That guy must have been really stoned" when they see something creative. Drugs are overrated. I've been in a few bands so I speak from experience. The least creatively productive working environments were the ones where everyone was high or drunk.
I heard this in 82 on Yugoslav radio,i was into all sorts of Punk,but this was even more weird. Fan since then. Thanx to that,few years later i discovered TOM WAITS,another genius
He was multi talented. Great video. 1982 seems so far away compared to today with everyone's faces buried in their handheld devices. The quickening is real. Great band like that would never get far in the lame current music industry.
I love the Captain and always have... Its a shame he no longer performs but wonderful he lives on as a collected painter. I don't remember who influenced who, but he and Waits are 2 of my favorites... Abstract artists, both able to color outside of the lines and get away with it... Beafheart raves like a madman in his performances and some would dismiss him out of hand because of that, but there is a wondrous musicality to his syncopated screech I could listen to forever... And I believe I will
I was in high school when my friend turned me on to "Safe as milk" and "Trout mask replica". And I'm quite grateful for it changed my musical world and still influences me today. RIP Don, you were magical. And Kudos to John for translating your ideas into music.
The time is April 1994. My family had just got satellite television here in the UK. Probably the best channel on it was MTV Europe. I used to tune in daily. One of the things I loved best about that channel was it would introduce me to some absolutely absurd, wonderfully weird music like this. This song and video has always stayed with me.
I got Astra Satellite TV and Yeh. I had a similar experience in about 1989/90 MTV Europe would play this a lot on a show called 120 Minutes. Was a great show.
It a mystery how anyone could possibly like Captain Beefheart which includes myself unfortunately. Great to find this video again which I have always remembered from a long time ago.
I saw blind faith in Hyde park........cos it was free.........an alternative gig was taking place........stupidly true,.......the Edgar Broughton Band.........sounding like Don...........back to the main gig.......Roy hàrper, Dave gilmour, John Paul Jones &...........as if by magickkkkkkk........Steve Broughton..........,l used to enjoy shopping wivmegirl, then...........
+Michael R Murphy I'm not too sure about that being true of Zappa.... Zappa was a kid on the Steve Allen show making music with bikes way before Captain Beefheart started. But I guess with any of them, you just can't tell who came first, the Zappa or the Beefheart!
When we were kids he lived a couple doors down from my grandparents on 33rd Street East in Palmdale. We lived around the corner on Avenue Q-1. His dad was our our Helm's Bakery driver.
I agree with all the sentiments expressed here - Thank goodness I have all those wonderful Beefheart albums to cheer me up in these wintry times. Martin
i used this for an interpretive reading in h.s.senior english class along with F. Z. 'S the muffin man. it was a big hit with the classmates. needless to say, i got an A+!!
I had the good fortune of seeing the good Captain at Tut's in Chicago on his 1980 tour. He was such a nice man! Came out into the club beforehand to chat briefly with the fans. Very gracious and humble. He'll be missed!
Couldn't have said it better. Some people seem to seek attention from people who just enjoy the music in their own ways by insulting them... I'll never cease to be thrilled and moved by music, wherever it comes from but I'm begining to get tired with the "world of music", press, so-called artists, hipsters, reactionary fans, etc.
Not sure why these guys weren't more popular. Maybe just ahead of their time. If you listen to the 70s, 80s, even 90s you can hear Beef as influence in a lot of bands, especially punk. Great stuff.
+Frankincensed All avant-garde rock music in late 30 years was influenced by Beefheart, not only punk... The Butthole Surfers sure were influenced by the magic band, but even Sonic Youth, Primal Scream, The Pixies and Radiohead. They probably wouldn't even know, but Beefheart's sound is more or less hidden in all that bands, too.First of all we have Frank Zappa (who was better, and more regular, but sometimes more accesible, too, (in Hot Rats, Overnite Sensation and Apostrophe, for example) and that's the reason why he's so famous, (obviously, because he was a genious, too) but then, if one is searching for the weidest bands of the 60's and 70's, we have the first and second LP by "The Red Krayola", Which are definitely hard to listen, but really avant-garde, and of course,The Residents, with their absurd touch of humour, and minimalist sound, and Captain Beefheart. All of them were even much more risky than the Velvet Underground. They were authentic anti-commercial lost heroes... And I understand this kind of music is not for everyone... It's too much weird, even for fanatics of psychedelic and progressive rock . Imagine what it could be for Easylisteners... (Even Beefheart was a bit more accesible in "Clear Spot", "the Spotlight Kid", and "Bluejeans and Moonbeans"... but even then, he was in his own weird world...) there's two songs of Captain Beefheart that totally blew my mind: This one, and "Big Eyed Beans from Venus", from "Clear Spot". That song is a total masterpiece for me. One of the hidden treasures I'm proud to know, Really great!
Years ago, I used to listen to this song absolutely stoned out of my mind. I swear the song intensified the feeling. I would zone out entirely, mesmerized by the unusual repetitions of riffs and the way they rarely repeat, in a way, from changes in beat direction. This song is nuts. Genius.
The more I watch and listen to this, the more I love it. The Captain made Zappa look positively normal in comparison. Even the music track alone is awesome.
To my friend and old bandmate Kurt O'Hara from Rhode Island. Thanks for showing me the world of 'the beefman'. 30 years later, I'm still enjoying trying to wrap my head around it. Hope you're not dead, Kurt type dude.
First saw this video as a kid thanks to the tv show "Night Flight" on the USA Network back in the early to mid 80's; a cool late "Fraturday" night variety video show that broadcast bizarre, hip, obscure, unique and avant garde videos, short films, and music artist profiles. MTV was scared of "Ice Cream for Crow" but this video was right up Night Flight's alley.
i think that beef hearts brilliance lies in what he makes possible for us to see and the way he does so in a totally peaceful manner. now, he might not always have been the calmest and kindest man, but he surely holds a lot against anybody; when you think of humans doing drugs, trafficking people, racketing money, sex slaves, organ sellers, thieves and murderers, well beef heart is pretty much a kind of genius
I personally put Don Van Vliet right up there with creators like Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Roland Kirk and Harry Partch. He is also a brilliant abstract artist.
You can just pick on instrument and really get into that and then switch to listen to any other. The drums were great at times and the bass guy lol freakin awesome. Oh and watching the 2 guitar guys freak out was fun :)
I love his later stuff, his delivery and body movements always remind me of some grumpy old man giving directions, his ability to be both forceful and playful or forcefully playful is what makes him an everlasting exercise in staying just as refreshing as day one. Love you Don🕊
Didn't know captain died in 2010 :( I only come across captain beefheart because someone in my city Liverpool spray painted his name everywhere haha! One of a kind RIP captain beefheart in the land of cows eating ice cream!!!
i SWEAR that when i saw this the first time i thought it was from like a few years back or at the most mid 90's. But 82??? damn, far ahead. very ahead it's time. even the looks of the video you didn't see it anywhere in the 80's, just later in some indie rock bands like jon spencer B E, etc. sweeet
It's not that funny. The Captain had tons of grit. But the whole happening is so haphazard and surrealistic from the beginning... Love you Captain because you're one of the few that dared to brawl out how silly our common vision of the world is.
beef was the real deal....although he showed us, through his music, our silly world, his music was in no way silly...ever. I can tell you understand Cornel. If yer like me, you've been listening to beef since the 60's
Colin Swayze: I was thinking of the musical development and experimentation that marked out Beefheart's highly diverse catalogue. A place of extreme secrecy that released only the best.
The fact that MTV rejected it makes it all that more delectable!
@kingthelstan854 Neat! Glad it had an audience somewhere
MTV is actually where I saw this video in the 80s.
@@paulyphonica Must have been one of the very few vids I missed back then
@kingthelstan854the UK has always been more supportive of the good Captain than his own country.
not very AOR of MTV
..🤣🤣
I was raised where this video was filmed. The large rock in the background is a crossroad called "Deadmens Point". Alot of old western film would use that to scene a stagecoach robbery.
My daughter - who's now 5 years old - asks to hear this every night after bath time so she can dance in her pajamas. I love it!
Your raising her right!
@@PunkRockGardener She'd be 20 now.
@@PunkRockGardenerraised * her right 😂
now she is grown up (hope). but it is on thinking. it is not for children
Ice cream by day.... ice cream by night.... That's all I'd hear if I was 5. I would have danced in my pajamas for that too.😂
I've listened to this four times in a row. I don't even know who I am anymore.
best way to be ...welcome
G00d!
Non of us do. Welcome to the gang.🤡👍🏻
The good Captain has this effect on most Beefheart converts. Wait til you hear Big Eyed Beans From Venus, I'm Gonna Booglarise You, Bat Chain Puller & err most everything else. Wrote some good ballads as well. He has no equal.
@@johnarvanitis696 Lmao. Too much crows needs a scarecrow
This is one of the greatest songs I have ever heard and then this video. Oh my god! It's enough to make you want to split open your own head! I can never get enough of it. I used to sing it constantly, especially the part where he says "white hattttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt on a pumpmkin...you know there's something!" I work at an ice-cream shop now and I sing it religiously. Not that anyone cares.
I care that you care
I quote the song all the time. Nobody ever gets it but they do get puzzled. I also like to quote from The Past Sure Is Tense. The whole album is great. One of his best. Maybe the best.
Sounds absolutely."Luverlyyyyy"...........
@@NickRowsellme too
,.......
All Don's old mates were weird.........including his god daughter.......Polly jean.........brilliant though.........
I wish I had the nerve to be 1/10th as authentically weird as this marvelous human.
You're either weird or your not... if you try too hard, it's palpable.
1/100th would be alright by me, but I have lower standards.
to me it seems Don is normal and everybody else is weird
And genious too
He was outrageous. Did you know he made THE very first music video? It is in The MOMA, The Museum of Modern Art.
I'm a blues freak and this song and the whole album is best of the best. This is how it should be done. Humour, danger, off-playing while playing just right, absurdism with wit. That's the real blues for me.
your right
Yes this is a masterpiece
Oh yes. And if you listen to his stuff till it loses its shocking newness, his ideas seep into your own music in the most amazing way!
when you hear trout mask replica your heads gonna explode
Son of Son House, you might say
Love it! The Captain whips thru the English language like a toddler racing around the house...picking up whatever he can find, shaking it, putting it in his mouth, playing with it, then moving on to the next thing that strikes his fancy.
+Mickster6988240 I think I had this song "figured out" once, but then I forgot.
Mickster6988240 - I like your description / analysis.
nice description dude :)
Nice simile.
Around about 1983, The Old Grey Whisle Test showed this video. I'd never really been aware of Captain Beefheart before that, but it was quirky so I bought the album and quite enjoyed it. I also had a poster from Sounds listing the top 100 greatest albums. The top 5 were all punk albums I think, but about half way down was something called Trout Mask Replica by the same guy, so I bought that too, and he became my favourite musician of all time. Thank you Don, RIP.
Got my Don stuff out again..........about time......
..genuine savant pioneer who elevated blues music,expressionist painting, reclusiveness, spontaneity, fearless individuality, and dry high desert humor to elegant art forms, to this day still untouchable....ask ry cooder or tom waits , while we still can, since zappa,s gone, and things keep moving so fast....lots to admire about beefheart
This is the best music video ever made! Beefheart will always be a legend and his magic band was always incredible.
Once you get Beefheart. He always remains a favourite. I
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Agreed
the video leaves a bit to be desired but seeing as how it was made in 1982 , at the very start of the art form , im sure it was highly influential in many music vids made thereafter .
I won't argue with that. Amazing song!!!!
"Ice cream 'fo 'sho? Oh! Ice cream for crow!"
God bless you Don van Vliet!
so basically the lyrics are made up gibberish? or have no real meaning.. he just makes it up as he goes along?
All my friends think I’m weird because I like Captain Beefheart’s music, they say that this is just some crazy dude rambling nonsense and somebody who’s never even seen a music sheet in his life...
I replied to them: ”well in that case this is some of the best nonsense I’ve ever heard”, and put the song on repeat. A truly unique innovator that can’t never be replaced, he inspired me to start playing harmonica a few years ago
Don't listen to them Juho. Lots of people just don't get it. You are one of the lucky one's that do. Welcome to the Beefheart Appreciation Society.
😂 my older brother introduced me decades ago Holsey67 🇬🇧 I was about 13 tripping out still get flash backs.53 now
Same here. I use to sit in my car in high school in 1975 and try to get people to listen. Few ever survived a couple of takes.
"a music sheet" - this man's genius had no need for one. He had John French to do the borin stuff.
They say "crazy dude rambling nonsense" like it's a bad thing.
I had the pleasure of meeting Don in NYC and again in LA.He came to a FZ rehearsal.I stood between them eavesdropping.40 years later I still do not believe it.But it happened
too weird for MTV, perfect.
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Sadly, this would have been perfect to show on Beavis & Butt-Head back in the 1990's. They usually showed weird music videos on B&B.
@@ChaosDevin Agreed 💯 I said the same thing when I first watched it. It woulda been as gold as when they did Yoko Ono's video lol
The difference was that Beavis and Butt-Head exhibited the kind of stupidity that infuriated Don. Back in 1972 he was interviewed by a Rolling Stone reporter and angrily denounced drug use. "Trying to save the planet is what's happening. I know people who drive metal stakes into redwood trees and when the loggers come to cut down the trees they break their goddam saws."
That's what I love about it.
You need to be 'out of the box ' to be anle to appreciate the genius of Beefheart! I consider myself one of the fortunate ones in this respect. He was indeed 'magic'.
I wished I could have afforded one of your paintings Don but I am glad I could afford your albums. I will truly miss you.
Mr. Beefheart is an acquired taste, the first few listens I didn't know what to think either, but it grows on ya. Its like stepping the shower, a shock to the system at first but once you get accumstomed it becomes very enjoyable.
Dunno.......Safe as Milk, pretty.easy on the ear..........Trout....,...different ball game................
Wheredidallthecreamcheesego......?
@@williamwilkes9873Trout was part of my school days when John Peel played it in its entirety over several weeks in the mid 90s. I still love it.
@@destrozar brilliant taste........lots of good bands like Gong were passed over........l knew Zep'', but loved Arthur Brown as well .........niçe cover..........not as good as Hot Rats, Mother's..............
Yeh, l spent time with them..........nice memories.
No words for this master, and the musicians he got to execute his visions over the years. Don stands alone in the art world.
Well his high school pal Frank Zappa was pretty cool too…I always think of them as being joined at the hip.
Wasn't much of a painter. I like some of his stuff but it's a little to rough and childlike.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 - As a painter myself for over 65 years I know that's not what most of the art world thinks, and while "Primitivism" (rough and childlike) is still influential and important, he did not fit completely into any category because the music and paintings are personal, and specific to his artistic sensibilities.
"But despite the perceived primacy of his paintings, Van Vliet was a locally famous artistic prodigy long before he was a musical icon. He began painting and sculpting at age three and gained local notoriety for his renderings of various animals. By age nine, Van Vliet won a children’s sculpting competition that would result in an apprenticeship with local tutor Agostinho Rodrigues who regarded the young Beefheart as truly gifted."
Captain Beefheart mentioned he did not want his MTV in a Letterman interview when MTV refused to play this video. Classic.....
Just watched that last night. It was a great interview.
My grandad once told me that this man was magic. As a innocent kid i ask if he was really magic, like spells and stuff. Now as a adult i truly understand what he meant.
@GuinnessandPizza I thought that's how David Blaine got aids
No it was spells and stuff
@@markmoreland9186 Yeah, he was a wizard.
Grandad was so awesome, hope you got to know that beautiful twisted, totally normal Man. Respect!!
Don, Jimi, John, Kurt et al are magicians.
They create wondrous things, beautiful things that hold us in awe, real magic!.
I've just read the sad news in NYT. Well, Captain, yours was the great stuff. We loved you madly here in Europe too. RIP.
the whole thing is worthy of being in a museum for art lovers of all ages
Mc Daniels I mean it is in the MoMA
There should be a Beefhaert museum
@@pietkonijn5522 It should be in the house where the Magic Band rehearsed Trout Mask.
Thank you for saying that. It's kinda irritating when I see people proclaim "That guy must have been really stoned" when they see something creative.
Drugs are overrated. I've been in a few bands so I speak from experience. The least creatively productive working environments were the ones where everyone was high or drunk.
music+tragedy+dreaming+teaching+entertainment+philosophy ..and something from 23-st century - in one! Bravo!
Beefheart at his most whacky and at same time creative. Love the bit where the Hawain guitar comes in. Absolute genius. Thanks for posting it.
I heard this in 82 on Yugoslav radio,i was into all sorts of Punk,but this was even more weird. Fan since then. Thanx to that,few years later i discovered TOM WAITS,another genius
He was multi talented. Great video. 1982 seems so far away compared to today with everyone's faces buried in their handheld devices. The quickening is real. Great band like that would never get far in the lame current music industry.
I love the Captain and always have... Its a shame he no longer performs but wonderful he lives on as a collected painter. I don't remember who influenced who, but he and Waits are 2 of my favorites... Abstract artists, both able to color outside of the lines and get away with it... Beafheart raves like a madman in his performances and some would dismiss him out of hand because of that, but there is a wondrous musicality to his syncopated screech I could listen to forever... And I believe I will
Good live..........weird but neat...........many moons ago, london.............
I was in high school when my friend turned me on to "Safe as milk" and "Trout mask replica". And I'm quite grateful for it changed my musical world and still influences me today. RIP Don, you were magical. And Kudos to John for translating your ideas into music.
Yup, you are not the only one.
Absolutely fabulous and so glad I got to see the Captain and the band here in the UK on the '80 tour...🤗🤗
Rest in Peace... Thanks for the memories and the live shows in NYC.
The time is April 1994. My family had just got satellite television here in the UK. Probably the best channel on it was MTV Europe. I used to tune in daily. One of the things I loved best about that channel was it would introduce me to some absolutely absurd, wonderfully weird music like this. This song and video has always stayed with me.
I got Astra Satellite TV and Yeh. I had a similar experience in about 1989/90
MTV Europe would play this a lot on a show called 120 Minutes.
Was a great show.
first time I watched this I was like "what the hell". Now I can't stop watching
This is a great work of art: I love the Rockabilly element and guitaring.
Fantastic.
THIS IS WHAT TURNED ME ON TO MUSIC. UNFORTUNATELY I GOT BOOED EVERYWHERE I PLAYED IT.
I wouldn't even dare.
I didn't play his toons, I just went with his inspiration of makin music fun and adapted it to my style
Always blasted that shit even the poppy stuff, i must admit safe as milk is my favorit, im a poppy guy.
and you KNOW the answer..If they hate it..then it's right beyond right! XP
at least you found out real quick most people...like 99%...should not even exist
It a mystery how anyone could possibly like Captain Beefheart which includes myself unfortunately. Great to find this video again which I have always remembered from a long time ago.
Thank you Captain Beefheart. You've been a part of my life for 40 years.
I saw blind faith in Hyde park........cos it was free.........an alternative gig was taking place........stupidly true,.......the Edgar Broughton Band.........sounding like Don...........back to the main gig.......Roy hàrper, Dave gilmour, John Paul Jones &...........as if by magickkkkkkk........Steve Broughton..........,l used to enjoy shopping wivmegirl, then...........
Tom Waits and Frank Zappa brought me here... I think I'll hang around a while, this stuff's good!
+Mark8395217 Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, & Captain Beefheart. Three of my favorite artists!
+Michael B Beef taught those other two everything they know!! Must be some cool jamming where they are now... :(
+Michael R Murphy I'm not too sure about that being true of Zappa.... Zappa was a kid on the Steve Allen show making music with bikes way before Captain Beefheart started. But I guess with any of them, you just can't tell who came first, the Zappa or the Beefheart!
Yeah, Frank and Steve Allen-in the 1950's? Not that long ago, right? Now David is up there with them too. SNIFF!!!
and Arthur Brown
I really miss the good Captain-R.I.P. This crazy frickin' world could hardly handle you! I for one am glad you were here !
When we were kids he lived a couple doors down from my grandparents on 33rd Street East in Palmdale. We lived around the corner on Avenue Q-1. His dad was our our Helm's Bakery driver.
Oh how I WISHED I had Purchased one of those Original Don Van Vliet Paintings over
35 years ago when they semi affordable......,
Mordock999 no kidding!
How much were they versus How much are they today?
I always hear music in his incredible depictions of the beautiful American landscape.
I agree with all the sentiments expressed here - Thank goodness I have all those wonderful Beefheart albums to cheer me up in these wintry times. Martin
R.I.P. Captain... Thanks for the lifetime of music you gave us...
A great loss and a great musician,,,,
a legend.......saw him in San Francisco in the early 80's.....a true original....sorely missed!!
Ja.....das war noch echte underground music ! Ein Genie und großer Meister incl. seiner Crew !!! ! a - - -
i used this for an interpretive reading in h.s.senior english class along with F. Z. 'S the muffin man. it was a big hit with the classmates. needless to say, i got an A+!!
Good night Austin Texas, wherever you are!
I took "when big Joan sets up,,,,it was a hit with the black dudes
I had the good fortune of seeing the good Captain at Tut's in Chicago on his 1980 tour. He was such a nice man! Came out into the club beforehand to chat briefly with the fans. Very gracious and humble. He'll be missed!
one of the best music videos ever, and with some of the most extraordinary art. Years ahead of its time, in fact TIMELESS - Genius...
Couldn't have said it better. Some people seem to seek attention from people who just enjoy the music in their own ways by insulting them... I'll never cease to be thrilled and moved by music, wherever it comes from but I'm begining to get tired with the "world of music", press, so-called artists, hipsters, reactionary fans, etc.
Just discovered this treasure. This is top notch quality.
Wild and wonderful, twisted, surreal Boogie. Raises the general level of JOY! Aye, aye, Captain.
Not sure why these guys weren't more popular. Maybe just ahead of their time. If you listen to the 70s, 80s, even 90s you can hear Beef as influence in a lot of bands, especially punk. Great stuff.
+Frankincensed All avant-garde rock music in late 30 years was influenced by Beefheart, not only punk... The Butthole Surfers sure were influenced by the magic band, but even Sonic Youth, Primal Scream, The Pixies and Radiohead. They probably wouldn't even know, but Beefheart's sound is more or less hidden in all that bands, too.First of all we have Frank Zappa (who was better, and more regular, but sometimes more accesible, too, (in Hot Rats, Overnite Sensation and Apostrophe, for example) and that's the reason why he's so famous, (obviously, because he was a genious, too) but then, if one is searching for the weidest bands of the 60's and 70's, we have the first and second LP by "The Red Krayola", Which are definitely hard to listen, but really avant-garde, and of course,The Residents, with their absurd touch of humour, and minimalist sound, and Captain Beefheart. All of them were even much more risky than the Velvet Underground. They were authentic anti-commercial lost heroes... And I understand this kind of music is not for everyone... It's too much weird, even for fanatics of psychedelic and progressive rock . Imagine what it could be for Easylisteners... (Even Beefheart was a bit more accesible in "Clear Spot", "the Spotlight Kid", and "Bluejeans and Moonbeans"... but even then, he was in his own weird world...) there's two songs of Captain Beefheart that totally blew my mind: This one, and "Big Eyed Beans from Venus", from "Clear Spot". That song is a total masterpiece for me. One of the hidden treasures I'm proud to know, Really great!
I see you post everywhere.... E V E R Y W H E R E
Brilliant madness, like most of his music!
One of the few people that has proven to me that Art is important! RIP Captain!
The Captain Lives!!!!
I scream, you scream - the crow screams for ice cream!!! Classic!
I think the elegy Hunter Thompson had for Oscar Acosta fits Capt Beefheart just as well: Too weird to live, too rare to die.
Sifcell Le Noir - How very true. It's also one of my favorite lines from the good doctor.
Amazing!
Solong Captain!
this put a smile on my face, what a funny insane video and song.
Years ago, I used to listen to this song absolutely stoned out of my mind. I swear the song intensified the feeling. I would zone out entirely, mesmerized by the unusual repetitions of riffs and the way they rarely repeat, in a way, from changes in beat direction. This song is nuts. Genius.
The more I watch and listen to this, the more I love it. The Captain made Zappa look positively normal in comparison. Even the music track alone is awesome.
To my friend and old bandmate Kurt O'Hara from Rhode Island. Thanks for showing me the world of 'the beefman'. 30 years later, I'm still enjoying trying to wrap my head around it. Hope you're not dead, Kurt type dude.
amazing how it sounds fresh still today
Absolute musical lunacy as only the Captain knows how, that said it does have one heck of a groove.
I love this! may Don Vanvliet live on forever 💋
don van vliet was a painter...captain beefheart made music
He died.......RIP..........
Clear Spot was a fav of mine way back.
thanks Captain.
RIP
There are only a few unique artist in a persons lifetime. Don Van Vliet was the king of unique.R.I.P
Another great masterpiece from the Captain
First saw this video as a kid thanks to the tv show "Night Flight" on the USA Network back in the early to mid 80's; a cool late "Fraturday" night variety video show that broadcast bizarre, hip, obscure, unique and avant garde videos, short films, and music artist profiles. MTV was scared of "Ice Cream for Crow" but this video was right up Night Flight's alley.
An artist that takes a special taste in music to enjoy. IMHO
I have that taste.
great album, one of the best artists there ever was
i think that beef hearts brilliance lies in what he makes possible for us to see and the way he does so in a totally peaceful manner. now, he might not always have been the calmest and kindest man, but he surely holds a lot against anybody; when you think of humans doing drugs, trafficking people, racketing money, sex slaves, organ sellers, thieves and murderers, well beef heart is pretty much a kind of genius
One of the best Beefheart songs. Guy never lost it
Brilliant. The video is a thing of wonder and beauty too.
This shows how life could be if we all tried a little harder!
Oh my, what a great insight. I hope I can try harder, for sho’.
Beefheart opened my mind in my 20’s…Amsterdam ‘80 is one of the greatest live recordings I’ve ever heard in my life.
I personally put Don Van Vliet right up there with creators like Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Roland Kirk and Harry Partch. He is also a brilliant abstract artist.
I was trying to explain what I thought jazz really was to my 11 year old daughter and the best I could come up with was sunra!
Don! Lol love this guy and his band.
You can just pick on instrument and really get into that and then switch to listen to any other. The drums were great at times and the bass guy lol freakin awesome. Oh and watching the 2 guitar guys freak out was fun :)
one beautiful song early 80s beefheart classic
Totally INSANE video and song. But there is a spark of total GENIUS in t5his somewhere...
Why is this so good ? can't stop watching
this is like the best stuff I ever heard Ice Cream for Crow rite now
Thank you Mr Van Vliet
So Heisenberg tried his product after all
good hustle
Hahahahahaahahaha
I love his later stuff, his delivery and body movements always remind me of some grumpy old man giving directions, his ability to be both forceful and playful or forcefully playful is what makes him an everlasting exercise in staying just as refreshing as day one. Love you Don🕊
This was our Wedding Song
Wish more people were like you and your wife. Having a humor being is one of the greatest gifts of living
Ha!
The Captains music was often awsomely funky and I loved the slide guitar playing on many of his tracks.
Didn't know captain died in 2010 :( I only come across captain beefheart because someone in my city Liverpool spray painted his name everywhere haha! One of a kind RIP captain beefheart in the land of cows eating ice cream!!!
Probably the band Coral
I must be on my 20th time watching this...its completly intoxicating !
i SWEAR that when i saw this the first time i thought it was from like a few years back or at the most mid 90's. But 82??? damn, far ahead. very ahead it's time. even the looks of the video you didn't see it anywhere in the 80's, just later in some indie rock bands like jon spencer B E, etc. sweeet
Great morning music man..great.
It's not that funny. The Captain had tons of grit. But the whole happening is so haphazard and surrealistic from the beginning... Love you Captain because you're one of the few that dared to brawl out how silly our common vision of the world is.
beef was the real deal....although he showed us, through his music, our silly world, his music was in no way silly...ever. I can tell you understand Cornel. If yer like me, you've been listening to beef since the 60's
Just brilliant 😎
Everyone needs some Captain in their life 😊
Music's Area 51.
I want to believe!
yep. me too!
interesting. elaborate?
Colin Swayze: I was thinking of the musical development and experimentation that marked out Beefheart's highly diverse catalogue. A place of extreme secrecy that released only the best.
Speaking of which....
THIS is the original video--great to see it in high res---RIP, good Captain...there will never be another like him!